This is largely restricted to the upper Coastal Plain and Piedmont from Ala. and Ga. to Va., with a few disjunct populations near western edges of the Cumberland Plateau in Ala., Tenn. and Ky. The only known Ky. site was discovered in WAYN (EKY) by G. Libby & T. Bloom in 1995 (Libby & Bloom 1998): above Beaver Creek upslope from outcrop at S end of spine of Cooper Point (Parnell Quad.)